Tim Frink wrote:> My question was if also a significant performance increase for RISC> architectures with a restricted number of functional units can be> expected when software pipelining is applied.

I'm not sure about significant increase, but it seems that even with
a small number of FUs pipelining could be used to hide latency (e.g.
memory access). But if FUs are already busy without software
pipelining, then pipelining is not going to make them any busier.
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Pertti